Anime Diet

This is the full video of Pamela Moss of Makenai band singing her winning AX Idol entry, “Kouga Ninpouchou” (the OP of Basilisk). I think she does a great job here. Check out more works by her band, Makenai, at their Myspace profile–they do some great covers of other anime theme songs as well.

And that’s it for the video diaries of AX this year! Here we spend some time thanking AX for the massively improved job this year at the con feedback panel, and head back to the dealer room one more time. We also meet an unholy spawn of our panel…the Pantyman. You’ll see. :) There are [...]

This day covers both the Shokotan concert, my successful signing with her, and the Masquerade. This year’s Masquerade was unexpectedly short, as many groups apparently dropped out at the last minute. However, both an independent group from Anime Souffle and the neighboring Orange County anime club scored high ranks–OC group actually won! It was quite [...]

Finally! Day 2 of the Anime Diet video diaries is now up. For some really odd reason, the first 2 seconds with the Anime Diet Productions logo doesn’t show up; it happened both times I tried uploading it to Youtube. It seems to be working now. In either case, you can expect to see some [...]

UPDATE: All versions of the video are now up. Again, Flash is instantly viewable. More like Anime Diet Video is what it is! This, officially our 23rd episode, is the video of the panel we held at Anime Expo, Friday, July 4–uncut with all the boring parts intact. :) I will be soon putting [...]

Finally. This is divided into two parts, to make it fit for Youtube. This is part 1: And this is part 2: One thing I really noticed is that not being in really long lines for a good part of the day meant that I didn’t get to interview as many strangers: on this day, [...]

The interview you’ve been waiting for–our press junket interview with Shokotan. It was actually a group interview, as Shokotan started doing junket interviews a bit late and, to fit everyone in, they had to put 2-3 press organizations together. This video only includes our questions; there were also the folks from Japanator, as well as [...]

This is our interview with Akemi Takada, the old-school character designer of such 80′s classics like Kimagure Orange Road, Maison Ikkoku, and Urusei Yatsura. She does briefly address why she hasn’t done any more Rumiko Takahashi works since then, and her plans to do some CGI work. This interview was conducted on press junket day, [...]

Here’s our interview with Masahiro Ando, a animation director key animator on Jin-Roh, storyboard artist for Full Metal Alchemist, and the new director of the feature film Sword of the Stranger. This was held on the day of the press junket, July 2. We got this interview literally two minutes after we walked into the [...]

Jeremy got an exclusive interview with the winner of this year’s AX Idol, Pamela Moss! Pamela is a singer in Makenai, a Japanese cover band out of Burbank. They are members of Anime Souffle, the anime club Jeremy and I belong to, and we are excited that someone who we know would win such a [...]

Well, the con’s over, we’re home, and things will slowly start getting back to the usual mix of reviews, commentary, and podcasts. After we get all our video up, of course! If you saw last year’s video diaries, you might remember my parting message was “May AX 2008 be sweeter.” It was. It was much, [...]

…or at least I got her to hold up a sign saying so at the autograph session! (I also got signatures from the president of Studio Bones, one of my favorite studios.) Her concert was awesome–the woman can actually sing and has real stage presence–and those costumes, man. Especially when she came out as Rei [...]